Eating them together here on a dock in False Creek, though, with low clouds scudding over a hedge of green-glass buildings across the water, past Stanley Park in the distance, is to experience something of the solemn, awestruck joy that the philosopher Edmund Burke called the sublime.
But newspaper descriptions evoke more ritualistic, even solemn, scenes of joy.
Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright.
Crane, likewise, presents the rare spectacle of a writer who is almost never vain or egotistical, but responds to his gifts with a mixture of joy and solemn responsibility.
He ended with: "Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright.
He had never felt so solemn or so full of joy".
Paean, solemn choral lyric of invocation, joy, or triumph, originating in ancient Greece, where it was addressed to Apollo in his guise as Paean, physician to the gods.
"Meditation somehow got the image of being arduous, solemn, moving away from fun and joy," he says.
We had met through dance, and I was drawn to his contradictions: one minute laughing heartily, squeezing every bit of joy out of life, the next solemn, eyes questioning.
